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INDOCTRINATION
PREVENTION
10 WAYS
COLLEGE PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATE
AMERICA’S YOUTH AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.
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INDOCTRINATION
PREVENTION
10 WAYS COLLEGE PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Deconstruction of Your Upbringing ...................................................................... 1
American Exceptionalism .................................................................................... 2
Glorification of Government ................................................................................. 4
Capitalism ........................................................................................................... 6
Greed vs Success ............................................................................................... 8
“Tolerance” ........................................................................................................ 10
Social Justice .................................................................................................... 12
White Privilege ................................................................................................. 14
War on Women .................................................................................................. 16
Sustainability ..................................................................................................... 18
INTRODUCTION
There’s a widely sold t-shirt that reads, “I survived college without becoming a
liberal.” While funny, it points to a large problem: most college students enter their
university naively and leave indoctrinated.
This book was written by college students and recent college graduates, all of
whom endured liberal bias in the classroom.
We understand that students enter college with the intention of becoming welleducated and obtaining a degree. Students are not actively seeking to become a
blind follower of the left. We know from experience that because professors are
skilled orators with years of experience, few students are able to identify when
indoctrination is taking place. We’ve watched our classmates accept the lies of the
left as fact, just because it’s coming from their intellectual superiors. Even the few
that can identify indoctrination have a hard time debating and debunking it in the
classroom; we’ve been there.
This book was written so that college students can take charge of their education
and remain steadfast in their beliefs of free markets, capitalism, and the American
dream.
Consider this book as indoctrination prevention…. and a headache to liberal
professors everywhere.
DECONSTRUCTION
OF YOUR UPBRINGING
The # 1 goal of a leftist professor is to change the way their students view the
world. Progressive professors want to make you question your beliefs and then
hope that you will abandon them altogether. They want to make you think like they
do. They want to brainwash you.
Similar to the way the army breaks down their trainees
before building them back up, your leftist professor will try
to make you doubt everything you’ve ever believed, only
to teach you a new way to see the world.
Your professor will attack your upbringing. He will insinuate that your parents are
not educated enough to know what they are talking about or that they are not
modern enough to understand the complex issues of today’s times. This is false,
and is the first step to undermining your belief system. The lens in which you view
the world is not unenlightened or outdated. It is, however, a barrier to what your
progressive professor wants to teach you next.
The same may be said about your religion. Here are just a few examples: “It is
outdated, it is anti-intellectual, it isn’t based on fact, it’s an old book, it’s a fairytale.”
If your professor can make you question the God of the universe, he can certainly
make you question everything else.
Your upbringing plays a large role in the way
you view the world. And chances are, at some
fundamental level, you believe things similar to
your parents, mentors, church, etc. That is okay,
and is in fact, a good thing!
Of course, your college experience is meant to be a time for learning, growth, and
maturing. Challenging your beliefs is a good way to strengthen them. However,
you should know, there are ways to refute the left’s attacks on your values and
upbringing. This book is here to help.
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AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM
The plight of mankind has been one characterized by
hardship and tragedies, disease and famine, oppression
and disaster; just look through the pages of history. In this
time, humans have rarely been offered freedom and liberty
by their fellow man; it is only a recent phenomenon, and
even today is still a treasure to find. In fact, there is no time and no place where
liberty was offered as freely as in the present day United States. Americans should
be proud to live in the United States and call it home.
Your liberal professor, however, will try to tell you that
America is an evil nation - that it has blood on its hands and
that it is no greater than anywhere else. While all human life
should be held at same value, the success and opportunity
that America has created as a country far outweighs any
other nation. And while yes, America has had its faults
throughout the years, such as poor treatment of natives, slavery, and unequal rights
for women, the mistreatments of these groups were occurring all over the world
and was considered as normal treatment during that time period. While these acts
are deplorable, it makes America no more evil than any other country. Unlike other
nations, the United States has since overcome and abolished slavery along with
the other transgressions past mentioned. Our ability to right our wrongs and heal
our wounds is one thing that makes America great.
Even today’s America is not a perfect nation. The United States has incurred great
debts, lags in the education of youth, and has the highest incarceration rate in the
world. Poverty still runs rampant in inner cities, environmental concerns mount, and
social and economic pressures still leave too many people divided. These problems
are very real, have yet to be overcome, and desperately need to be addressed.
So with all that’s wrong with the United States, how can America still be
exceptional?
Exceptionalism does not come from being perfect, it comes from being unique and America is very unique. Through the lens of basic metrics used to measure
quality of life, one can see that America uniquely produces high life quality.
Ultimately, these metrics show that America has the strength to rights its own
wrongs.
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Our constantly increasing standard of living, access to economic capital and
opportunity and the relative freedom of individuals of our country stands alone.
Within a time span of the last 300 years, the United States has (1) crafted
mankind’s greatest representative government, (2) made uncanny technological
advances in the sciences and industry, (3) become the most compassionate and
giving nation in the world, (4) become the beacon of freedom and the (5) bastion
of opportunity across the world. This is what has driven millions of immigrants from
around the world to our shores and will continue to do so.
The United States, unlike any other country, takes on tasks that are like shooting for
the stars: confronting and combating global threats and connecting people around
the world in ways never thought possible. Today, a devastated village in Sierra
Leon can receive millions of dollars in aid and support within 24 hours, saving
thousands of lives. This is real progress from the brutal and disconnected world
pre-America. There is no question that the United States of America, through its
example and leadership, has been the engine of such progress.
The foundations and framework of our great
country go unrivaled, but framework alone did
not make this exceptional engine. Time and time
again it has been the American people that have
made the crucial difference. If you work hard
and are faithful to the rules and laws of society,
then you will find opportunity; people from
every possible background have contributed to
America’s success.
Indeed in our diversity and wealth of cultures we find our greatest strengths. This
reality is a major contributor to the reason why the United States is home to the
most industrious, hardworking and innovative people in the world - people that
believe in empowerment, improvement and building a better future.
When your liberal professor says that you should be ashamed to be an American,
or that people across the globe hate America, do not believe him. Do not feel
ashamed or in denial about your status as an American and don’t buy into this the
line of perpetual self-hatred that’s the norm on college campuses today. America is
much more than the politics-as-usual we find in Washington D.C. It is a beacon of
hope and freedom to many across the world.
You can reject your liberal professor’s pessimistic view of America by
understanding the uniqueness of our Constitutional Republic - the foundation for
freedom and liberty internationally.
THE
GLORIFICATION
OF GOVERNMENT
No matter what the topic may be, your liberal professor will find a way to glorify
government. This is not to be confused with the glorification of America or American
values. The glorification of government is something different.
Unlike American patriotism which encourages students from a young age to
appreciate the freedoms and opportunities a free society like America has to offer,
glorification of government glorifies the growth of those in control who often lessen
the freedoms of others.
Whether your class is talking about economics or social sciences, your professor
will be sure to slip in how government is “there to help.”
Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language
are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
This is because government is inefficient, corrupt, and
wasteful. This is why Turning Point USA says, “BIG
GOVERNMENT SUCKS!”
If and when the government has a success, the free
market and private industry could have created that
success quicker and with better results.
Here’s a perfect economic example: It has been
reported that the United States Postal Service
loses $25 million per day while UPS and FedEx,
both private companies, make a profit each year!
In general, most people would say they also prefer
the service of these private companies.
Similarly, your professor may advocate for the government to step in and help those
in need. While we all should be in favor of helping those in need, we should be in
favor of helping those in need as quickly and as best as possible.
Here’s a great social example: When disaster strikes, the American Red Cross and
the North American Mission Board’s Southern Baptist Disaster Relief are always
the first on the scene. This is often times before the National Guard or Federal
Emergency Management Agency. Just like private companies offer better products,
private charities offer better service.
The glorification of government will even creep into your history lessons. Expect
your professor to be touting The New Deal as the savior that turned America’s
economy around, despite its leftover programs that are still bankrupting us today!
And don’t expect to learn about the Depression of 1920. This was a year with an
extremely sharp deflation that was worse than the depression we know as the
Great Depression. You won’t hear about this depression in 1920 though, because
it was fixed by keeping government out of the market! Anyone who glorifies
government knows that this quick fix by limited government involvement debunks
the narrative of the need for government.
Your liberal professor will teach you that government guidance and regulation is
always for your benefit. However, the government cannot create; it can only restrict.
If you love freedom, you should not love government. Government is a necessary
evil; not a glorified hero.
CAPITALISM
Allowing free people to make choices and decisions as
they see fit is why America is the greatest country in all the
world. Choices like the freedom to invest, fail, succeed, risk,
and thrive creates innovation, production, and incredible
economic prosperity. This freedom of choice in the market
place is called free market capitalism.
Free market capitalism is the backbone of America’s success and greatness.
Therefore, professors who strive to redefine and destroy the idea of America must
first redefine and destroy the idea of capitalism.
Your liberal professor will attack capitalism in three main ways:
1) Misrepresent what capitalism is.
Your liberal professor will argue that bank bailouts, widespread corruption, and
cronyism are inherent in a capitalistic system. This, however, is simply not true.
Capitalism without excessive regulation does now allow for cronies to ascend to
high levels of business. Instead, the consumer purchases and supports whoever
creates a product that is in demand. Those who create the best products rise to
the top. With true capitalism, companies and businesses don’t succeed when they
participate in abuse or back room deals. They succeed by winning the dollar vote of
the consumer.
Cronyism is not capitalism! It is very important to remember this when a professor
attacks the free market. Insider deals, favorable taxation and regulation is NOT
capitalism. That is cronyism, and is a result of the government stepping into the
marketplace.
2) Take the worst, most extreme examples of abuse and
malpractice and make it seem like everyday occurrences
and mainstream behavior.
If liberal professors talks about the free market, they will do so
by highlighting rare occurrences and out-of-the-norm examples.
One such example is the BP oil spill. Yes, the oil spill was a terrible thing that
happened to the entire gulf coast, and BP should have to pay for it. However,
there are millions of barrels of oil that are transported daily, safely, and securely,
without ever being spilled. You will never hear a liberal professor explain the rarity
of oil spills or the rarity of company-caused environmental disasters. Instead your
liberal professor will highlight specific fringe stories and examples as a way to
misrepresent capitalism and portray it as something it is not.
Liberal professors will religiously use stories and examples that are outliers,
because the everyday operation of capitalism functions for good!
3) Say that capitalism has not worked. Your liberal professor will argue that
poor people, minorities, and women are worse off thanks to capitalism. He
will use skewed statistics, misleading data, and unfair analysis to portray
capitalism as the enemy of the poor and unfortunate.
One of the most widely held ideas on college campuses is the notion that capitalism
has not helped poor people, when in fact, the truth is the complete opposite.
Everyone benefits when innovation and technological advances are made. Free
market capitalism is the only system that has consistently raised people from
poverty into higher levels of living.
Here are a few examples:
200 years ago a poor person would have a low likelihood of
living past the age of 32. Now the average life expectancy for
a person with lower income is 78! People live longer, thanks
to amazing advances in healthcare technology, innovation in
medicine, and competition in the healthcare field.
40 years ago only select members of the military had cell phones. Now over 70%
of the adult population in America have cell phones. How is this possible? Thanks
to competition and innovation, fostered by capitalism, cell phones are now made
at incredibly low costs. These low costs are passed on to the consumer, therefore
increasing the accessibility to a cell phone. Now almost anyone in America can
purchase a cell phone.
In the last 50 years we have made more technological
advances than ever before. Prior to the past 50 years,
innovators lived under government control with limited
individual freedom. It is within the last 50 years that
we have unleashed the amazing human potential and
entrepreneurial spirit to advance humans into higher levels
of living and comfort.
Capitalism cures poverty and creates prosperity.
Don’t allow your liberal professor to tell you otherwise.
GREED VS. SUCCESS
Your liberal professor will try to shame you into
thinking that you are selfish for enjoying the benefits
of capitalism. There is nothing wrong with enjoying
the benefits of capitalism. In fact, your liberal
professor enjoys those same benefits. Capitalism
has benefited everyone; it raises the tide of all ships.
Your liberal professor will try to enforce the idea that
there is no difference between greed and success.
This is because successful people are unequal to those who have, in some arena
of life, failed. Leftists are all about equality and are not happy with giving everyone
equal opportunity. They want to see everyone have equal results.
Here lies the difference between an American capitalist and your leftist professor.
An American capitalist wants to see everyone have the freedom to make their own
choices. Some will succeed and some will fail. Those who succeed will raise the
quality of life for everyone (see chapter on Capitalism) and have the opportunity to
help others, out of the goodness of their heart, through private charity (see chapter
on Glorification of Government.)
Your leftist professor, on the other hand, wants everything to be fair. In fact, in the
eyes of your leftist professor, fairness and equality is more important than quality
of life. Because of this, government must control as much as possible, so that
everyone will end up equal. If there is a case in which someone is more successful
than everyone else, your leftist professor believes government should step in and
redistribute the money. While this enforces an equal outcome, it also lowers the
standard of living.
If you disagree with your leftist professor, you must be greedy. This, of course,
is an emotional attack on those who have had the good fortune of success and
understand that capitalism is the best system for helping those in need. But, again,
if someone disagrees with the government redistributing a successful person’s
money, it is much easier to say they are greedy, than to combat the entire notion of
capitalism and its successes.
Your liberal professor may employ the straw man argument that those who are
successful or want successful people to keep their profit are greedy and do not
donate to charity. In most cases, this is also far from true.
In one study conducted by ABC’s 20/20, a predominately liberal town in California
was compared to a predominately conservative town in Utah. A Salvation Army
donation bucket was set at the main entrance of each store with the most traffic
in town. It was reported that the town in Utah made half the income of the town in
California, and the town in California had three times the traffic as the town in Utah.
Yet results found that the town in Utah collected two times more money than the
town in California. Even though the town in Utah had less people with less money,
they still gave more generously. This is just one example, but when your liberal
professor tries to tell you that conservatives are greedy and do not donate as much
money as liberals, you can tell him this study has proved otherwise.
Regardless of who donates more to
charities, it is important to understand that
private charities can only function without
government regulation and with the donations
of the financially successful. Private charities
best function in a free market society – the
same society that best raises the quality of
living for all.
The next time your liberal professor tries to tell you that being successful is a bad
thing, do not believe what you are being told. You are not greedy. You are a caring
and charitable free-market capitalist!
“TOLERANCE”
Tolerance is a good thing. In fact, we need tolerance
to live in a free society. In a free society, people will
inevitably believe in and support things that you don’t.
In order to keep peace, live happily, and continually
allow others the freedom to their beliefs, you should
be tolerant!
But what exactly does it mean to be tolerant?
Your liberal professor will explain that tolerance is
acceptance. However, the definition of tolerance is
the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in
particular the existence of opinions or behavior that
one does not necessarily agree with.
Take note: tolerance is dealing with things you don’t like or accept. Tolerance is not
acceptance.
If your viewpoint does not align with that of your liberal professor, you may be called
intolerant! This is ironic, at best, considering that the exclusion of your viewpoint is
not tolerant! Your liberal professor will demand that you be tolerant of his view (or
more specifically that you accept his view) all the while refusing to be tolerant of
your view (or even allow you to mention your differing opinion in the classroom.)
You may remember the debacle surrounding the cast of
“Duck Dynasty” after Phil Robertson made a statement
denouncing homosexuality. No violence or outright hate
was wished towards members of the gay community.
The legalization of gay marriage was simply denounced
on moral grounds. Whether or not you agree with Phil
Robertson, what happened to him next is a perfect
example of the left’s illogical use of “tolerance.”
Phil Robertson released a statement saying that he
doesn’t hate homosexuals, but simply does not agree with
homosexuality on religious grounds. This wasn’t good
enough for liberal progressives. They were not tolerant of
his views. Instead, they screamed about how intolerant
the Robertsons were, demanding that their TV program
be canceled, all because their views were different.
Because the media and leftist progressives could not stand someone having
success and not supporting their viewpoint, they called for his removal, claiming
that Robertson was intolerant. While the Robertson family did not support the
homosexual lifestyle, they did not demand anything or any change from the
homosexual community. While they didn’t accept, they were actually tolerant.
You will experience this type of attack in the classroom, often in regards to social
issues, but occasionally leaking into foreign policy or economics. Do not allow bias
professors to force thought into an ideological corner. They will use tools like white
privilege, also discussed in this book, to tell students that if they do not think a
certain way they are intolerant or racist. In reality, anyone who possesses the skill
of critical thinking knows that respectful disagreement and conversation produces
far superior academic discussion than any single view your supposedly-tolerant,
liberal professor can teach.
The most important thing to remember through your years in college is that a
professor is not the great proprietor of knowledge they may claim to be. Real value
in education is derived through disagreement, not compliance. Be confident in your
position and values, engage respectfully, and never allow yourself to be shamed
away from your convictions.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Your liberal professor will play to your emotions as much as possible. One such
way is through the teaching of social justice.
Social justice sounds like a good cause - after all, who wouldn’t want justice applied
in realms of social society? However, social justice is defined as the distribution of
wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. It is strictly anti-capitalism and
anti-American.
Social justice claims to be a movement
promoting equality and fighting
discrimination. But one must ask, is
results-driven equality really what is best for
society?
Your liberal professor will want to define
discrimination as unjust or prejudicial
treatment. Of course, you should be against
this type of discrimination. However,
discrimination is simply the recognition and
understanding of the difference between one
thing and another. People can be unfair and prejudicial in their discrimination, but
that is not always the case! For example, one can “discriminate” between a good
idea and a bad idea. Discrimination, when employed fairly, is the use of wisdom.
People who spearhead the social justice initiative have dubbed themselves as
“social justice warriors.” They claim to find discrimination against women and
minorities within every facet of society. Social justice warriors often blow minor
incidents in America out of proportion, while completely ignoring dire oppression
occurring in other countries. They lack the wisdom to discriminate between a
legitimate societal problem and something that is a quirky freedom of expression.
Take “shirtgate” for example. Dr. Matt Taylor helped to land a robot onto a comet one of the greatest achievements in science. Yet instead of focusing on his team’s
great achievement, many onlookers focused on his bowling shirt, because it had
provocative images of women sown on it. Many accused him of misogyny, even
though a female friend had made him the shirt. Social justice warriors took to
social media to reprimand Dr. Taylor for his shirt. Shortly after, Dr. Taylor tearfully
apologized to anyone he may have offended, making it clear there was no malice in
his outfit choice.
Now whether you take offense to Dr. Taylor’s bowling
shirt or not, the point is this: social justice warriors
attacked this man relentlessly for his shirt, while they
stood idly by and ignored a true travesty.
While social justice warriors were up in arms over a
bowling shirt, women in the Middle East were being
brutalized by ISIS and the Taliban. These women are
denied access to education, are forced into marriages,
have their genitals mutilated, and are threatened with
death if they don’t convert to Islam. Nothing is done by
“social justice warriors” to help these women.
This is the paradox of social justice warriors. They do nothing to combat true social
injustices, and instead use a feel-good term to redistribute wealth, regulate the
economy, and tear down America’s free market system. Don’t be fooled by “social
justice” as there is nothing good about it.
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Although the term “white privilege” has been in existence for a while, it has just
recently become a buzz word on college campuses. Your liberal professor will
describe white privilege as unearned societal privileges that white people inherently
hold - that whites are considered “normal” in a society while non-whites are
considered the minority.
When taken to its furthest end, one can conclude that since “skin” colored band
aids are closer in color to the skin of a white person than to the skin of a non-white
person, white people have a subtle privilege while non-white people are served an
injustice. You may think that the color of a band aid sounds like a ridiculous thing
to worry about in academia, but your liberal professor will insist that this and many
other obscure examples are life impacting. Your liberal professor will insists that
white privilege is what makes white people successful and is what hinders nonwhites from achieving success.
In reality, white privilege is a presumptuous
premise that broadly judges people based
solely on their skin color. Accusing someone
of having “white privilege” undermines
personal struggles and suggests that
achievements are only due to race, not
individual work ethic. In short, accusing a white
person of having white privilege is judging a book
by its cover. That type of mindset does not promote
racial equality. It instead focuses solely on race,
making the notion of “white privilege” racist itself.
Despite what your liberal professor may say, being white does not automatically
exempt you from hardship. White privilege has not kept over 38% of the homeless
population from poverty; (over 38% of the homeless population is white.) Similarly,
white privilege does not stop non-whites from obtaining success. It certainly did not
stop Barack Obama from being elected as the President of the United States, not
once but twice. Even considering how someone became homeless or the president
of the United States based solely on their race should be offensively racist.
Princeton student Tal Fortgang was often reprimanded
by his professors to “check his privilege” because he was
a male with a light skin-tone. He wound up writing a viral
article condemning the phrase because it judged him
for something he wasn’t and diminished his hard earned
accomplishments.
Fortgang revealed that his ancestors did
not have an easy life and his family’s
success was not handed to him. His
grandfather was forced to flee from his
home as a teenager, when the Nazis
invaded Poland. His great-grandmother
and her siblings were shot into an open
grave during the Holocaust. When
liberated from death camps, his few living ancestors came to America knowing
no English and having no means to survive; yet they did. They opened up a small
wicker store, burning the candle at both ends. They put their children through
Jewish day school and eventually through college. They lived the American dream.
Fortgang then asked, “would you say that we’ve been really privileged? That our
success has been gift-wrapped?”
The answer is obviously a resounding “no.” White privilege did not aid in the
Fortgang family’s success. It was hard work and endless resolve. It was opportunity
to pursue the American dream.
Nothing can stop anyone of any race from achieving the American dream if their
drive is strong enough. White privilege is simply a way to stir up division and blame
negative circumstances on pigment rather than principles.
If you believe that people are equal, regardless of skin color, that would have
made you a radical sixty years ago, a liberal thirty years ago, and a racist
today. – Thomas Sowell
THE WAR ON WOMEN
Political scientists view everyone as a member of a
demographic. They break down populations by race,
ethnicity, religion, economic status, living location,
gender, and sexual orientation – just to name a few
categories. Then, they figure out what is of greatest
concern to each demographic, how to mobilize each
group, and other pressing political questions.
Political campaigners use this information to mobilize voters in droves. We all know
this. It should be of no surprise that the “war on women” was created as a tool to
mobilize women to vote for certain policies. These certain policies happen to be
leftist policies.
Your liberal professor will try to advance the “war on women” narrative in order to
squash capitalism which truly looks at each individual as an equal actor in the free
market.
But what exactly makes up the war on women? Your liberal professor will tell you
it is comprised of certain politicians, power structures, and policies that work to
restrict women’s rights.
Your liberal professor will promote the war on women with three main lies.
(1) Conservatism is for old men.
It is the American dream, not liberal policies which enable women to be successful.
And those who say that liberals embrace women more readily obviously haven’t
looked at the demographics of our government leadership:
– 4 out of 5 of the current female governors
are Republican.
– The first Hispanic woman in Congress
is a Republican.
– The only woman to be recently-nominated
as a candidate for Vice President was
a Republican.
While the involvement of women in politics is growing and should be encouraged,
it should be clear that women are not excluded from participating in conservative,
Republican politics.
(2) Women make $0.75 for every $1.00 men make in the workplace. When you
add up all of the wages made my women and then divide by the number of women
in the workforce, and do the same for men, there is, in fact, an inequality.
This inequality is created by the different choices that men and women make.
Therefore, the method used to come to this inequality is deceiving.
In regards to career path, men typically choose to go into fields with math,
science and engineering. Women, on the other hand, statistically choose majors
like anthropology or women and gender’s studies. There shouldn’t be much of
a surprise that jobs that involve hard science make higher salaries than those
involving soft or social sciences. Some degrees hold greater value than others, and
men and women are free to choose which degree they pursue. Women statistically
choose less-valued degree programs and careers.
Another reason for this inequality is because many women take time off to have
and raise children. Spending less time in one’s field obviously shortens the timeframe in which one can climb the pay-scale ladder. When women make choices to
raise a family, this contributes to your liberal professor’s pay inequality statistic.
When you put these facts together, it is pretty clear that choices affect this pay gap
statistic, not discrimination or the “war on women.”
(3) Women care most about their reproductive rights.
No matter where you stand on the issue of abortion and other reproductive rights, it
should be clear that women are no different than men when it comes to the issues
they most care about. (Talk about equality!)
While it may be of concern to women where they
can get birth control, it is much less important to
them than having money in their pocket, a roof
over their head, and safety at home. If a woman
is hungry or is worried about a bomb falling from
the sky due to poor foreign policy, birth control
is really the last thing on her mind. It should be
insulting when government bureaucrats determine through political analysis that
women “vote like your lady parts depend on it” (as the Barack Obama campaign
once urged women to do.)
When your liberal professor tries to teach the war on women as fact, make sure to
speak up and explain how it is nothing more than a messaging campaign free of
facts. It is patronizing to think that women would fall for such a lie anyway!
SUSTAINABILITY
We’ve all heard of environmentalism and the green movement- saving the earth,
reducing your carbon footprint, recycling and ending global warming. But you may
or may not have heard about sustainability. Sustainability is the left’s hijacking of
environmentalism.
While everyone can agree that being a good
steward of resources is morally important, the term
sustainability is both deceitful and flat out illogical.
Your liberal professor will bill sustainability as
“glorified heroism” when it is actually about
changing Western culture. The concept of
sustainability can be broken down into three pillars:
(1) Environmental (2) Economic and (3) Social
The (1) environmental pillar of sustainability encompasses environmentalism. This
often twists a positive force that could reduce costs and conserve resources into a
leftist religion obsessed with spending money without regard to benefit.
Of course, even the most zealous of the
green movement gets carried away with
“feel good” actions that produce little results.
This practice is called green washing and is
accepted because most who truly understand
sustainability do not care about producing
environment related results, but rather care
about tearing down successful, capitalismfueled nations like the United States.
Your liberal professor may say that mother
earth’s climate change causes deaths or that
fossil fuels pollute the earth to a rapid state of
demise. This is simply not true. In fact, for the
last 2,000 years, global warming and cooling
have been the rule, not the exception and
fossil fuels have bettered the environment.
When you professor brings this up, make sure to ask, “How many climate related
deaths occurred this year?” The answer should be few to none.
Follow up by suggesting this concept: Due to human innovation, i.e., capitalism and
big businesses who use fossil fuels, the environment is actually becoming a safer
place to live.
Before modern technology, if a hurricane or a flood occurred, many people would
die. But today, thanks to creative innovation, we build homes on stilts, have
hurricane impact windows or shutters, and can often predict when storms are
coming our way. We drive our cars to safety or sit in the comfort of our well-built
home. Similarly, men and women used to die from extreme heat or cold, but
today we insulate our homes and have air conditioners that regulate temperature.
Historically speaking, Earth has never been hospitable or friendly to human life until
humans themselves created, innovated, and tamed it!
The second pillar and third pillars, economic
sustainability and social sustainability, often
blend together.
In regards to (2) economic sustainability, it
is illogical and destructive. Practices such
as wind turbines or solar panels often cost
more to install and run than they produce.
In fact, creating, installing, and maintaining
these sustainable practices are often done
through the use of fossil fuels. This is truly
an unsustainable business practice and
counterintuitive to the green movement cause.
So why lose money and use fossil fuels to be sustainable, you may ask?
Sustainability is used as a way to demonize
wealth creation, and oil is one of the most lucrative
businesses globally. While yes, one day we may
run out of oil, right now it is cheap, reliable, and
plentiful.
A common misconception is that oil is mainly used
for gasoline. However, it’s in products that the most
green-friendly advocate uses every day: nylon,
acrylic, and polyester clothing (such as socks,
underwear, buttons, running shoes,) toiletries (such as sunscreen, shampoo and
conditioner, toothpaste, soap, tampons, and all sorts of makeup,) and other life
“necessities” (like your iPod, gum, and sunglasses.)
And let’s not forget the hypocrisy of the left. Remember when Al Gore flew his
private, fossil-fue-run jet all across the country to promote his anti-fossil fuel movie?
Remember all those signs used in the NYC climate march that were made from oil
products?
The economic model advocated for by sustainability activists is purely a feel-goodtheoretical model that will never hold up in real life. It’s anti-free market, anticapitalism, and anti-success.
Thomas Friedman said, “In the green revolution we’re having, everyone’s a winner,
nobody has to give up anything ... That’s not a revolution. That’s a party.”
A few examples of economic sustainability crippling today’s market place is the
regulation of each “carbon footprint” a business produces. One would think that if
pollution really did hurt the environment at such drastic measures, “buying your way
out” via carbon taxes and credits would not be allowed. After all, don’t the left hate
the rich? And wouldn’t this empower those with more money? The answer is yes,
and this is a perfect example of cronyism, not capitalism. However, carbon taxes
and caps are solely a way to regulate business and take down the free market
system and are not actually about curbing pollution.
Economic sustainability also focuses on ethical consumerism, which starts to bleed
into the social pillar. Ethical consumerism is the intentional purchase of products
and services that the customer considers to be made ethically. A well-known
example of ethical consumerism is fair trade coffee.
However, retailers have explained that neither the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations
International umbrella group or Fair Trade USA have sufficient data showing
positive economic impact on growers.
In fact, by boycotting products created in third
world countries with low work-environment
standards, you close down factories and
eliminate jobs altogether. This worsens the
economy and does not help the plight of the
third-world worker. Instead, the best way for a
third world country to lift itself out of poverty is
to let a true free market take its course.
The (3) social pillar is perhaps most influential on college campuses. Beyond
international social justice, sustainability practices have taken up social causes
like gender neutral housing, diversity counsels (which actually further segregate
students,) and paying all employees a living wage.
Two programs that work with colleges and universities on these social issues are
ASHEE: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
and the STARS: Sustainability Tracking and Rating System. These two systems
allow schools to assess if they have sustainability in their curriculum, have their
endowment properly invested, and have childcare for their employees, amongst
many other more liberal ideas. Again, this has nothing having to do with the
environment.
So why do schools feel the need to work with
organizations that judge them based on nonenvironmental criteria? It all goes back to how
environmental sustainability is not economically
sustainable. The better a college or university does
on these scoring rubrics, the more likely they are to
earn grant money to subsidize their green projects
which are not economically sustainable or feasible.
As you can see, sustainability all boils down to money, control, and the changing of
Western Culture.
The next time you think the green movement is as innocent as putting your plastics
in the recycle bin, think again.
As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux said, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
and that can be said of many who fall into the liberal trap of sustainability.
IN CLOSING
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